Frills of Justice

Cardcaptor Sakura for WonderSwan fan translation

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:30:16 GMT

Posted by: stepnix

Cardcaptor Sakura raising sim about to be available in English for the first time!

I've been bemoaning how little information is available on this, so it's REALLY exciting to see it get this kind of attention.

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Mahou History: Princess Tutu (Cohost Repost)

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 23:49:35 GMT

Posted by: stepnix

Re-sharing an old Cohost post here while I get ready to rehost it on my Neocities. Hope you enjoy!
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Full Moon blu-ray release imminent

Sun, 10 Aug 2025 04:19:16 GMT

Posted by: stepnix

AnimEigo's edition of Full Moon o Sagashite (Looking for the Full Moon) is about to release! Part 1 in just a few days, Part 2 coming later. This series intrigues me first as a post-Sailor Moon throwback to the idol genre, and second as, well...

Mitsuki's a normal 12-year-old girl who dreams of becoming an idol singer... except she's dying of cancer. With a surgery looming that could damage her vocal chords, and a grandmother completely against Mitsuki's dreams of showbiz, it seems like her wish will never come true. But when she's visited by two shinigami - Takuto and Meruko - Mitsuki makes a promise. If they can help her fulfill her dream, then she will part with her soul willingly when the time comes.

...a much more melancholy premise than you'd expect from a magical idol throwback!

This is the first time the whole English dub will be released, after its original release plans were interrupted. Exciting times!

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Documenting word of god/official media on twitter?

Sun, 27 Jul 2025 20:36:41 GMT

Posted by: malymin

As a Princess Tutu fan, I've found that a lot of potentially useful information and announcements (such as new merch or events) are not only in Japanese with no English version, lately they're only on twitter. I have no plans to make a twitter account in this day and age, so i have to use alternate front ends like nitter.poast just to read a single thread and look at the concept art posted in it.

If I try to view the account's main page through the actual twitter (or "x") front end, it's several months behind the actual most recent posts. I only learned about a few events like pop-up shops long after they'd ended due to this. And twitter is a very badly formatted site for archival deep-dives into the account's earlier tweets... there's one tweet that talks about how Rue/Kraehe was originally going to be a comedic villianess with rat sidekicks in a sort of Time Bokan inspired setup with Rue as the Doronjo figure, but I can't figure out how to pull it up easily.

I'm wondering if any other fandoms have developed means to properly document and translate information from social media - especially as conventional socmed grows increasingly hostile to people who don't have accounts. Most wikis seem to fall horribly behind with documentation, and the kind of fansites that would document obscure trivia just don't seem to exist in the way they used to. If twitter still allowed the formation of RSS feeds, I would happily inject one into my feed for some of my more obscure shows, but as it currently stands... I can't even read Japanese, I use machine translation or pass individual tweets to friends who can. But even without translation, sometimes there's official and production art I can't find anywhere else.

I know the kind of fandom that dominates dreamwidth has always tended more "transformative" than "curative", but curation is and has always been very important to me as a fangirl - I constantly cross-reference whatever official materials I can get when I'm making art or writing fic, even if I'm intentionally going against the work's original intent or themes. I feel really lonely in this struggle, so I'm wondering if anyone has any advice.

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The Pretty Cure & Tokusatsu Prompt Meme 2024!

Fri, 06 Dec 2024 18:42:07 GMT

Posted by: sonofgodzilla

I am reluctant to post promos but I stand at the crossroads of this feeling and the need also to actually let people know a thing is happening and not simply trust faith, so I shall be brief: The Pretty Cure & Tokusatsu Prompt Meme 2024. 6th December 2024 to 6th January 2025, all Precure, all tokusatsu, no crossover requirement, just fondness for a Sunday morning children's programming block.

Have fun, if this kind of thing is your kind of thing.

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Magilumiere!

Mon, 21 Oct 2024 22:16:26 GMT

Posted by: stepnix

I read the first few volumes of Magilumiere a few months ago, and I'm hyped to see the anime series starting! It's magical girls fused with the tech industry and somehow it works really well

Henshin sequences for the leads so far!

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Mahou webcomics

Thu, 17 Oct 2024 22:04:08 GMT

Posted by: stepnix

A recent permutation of my big genre projects has been tracking anglosphere magical girl webfiction, including prose serials and webcomics. except I haven't actually found that many webcomics, but I wanted to share what I had anyway

Angel Moxie

Sleepless Domain

Shattered Stars

The first one is much earlier than the other two, much closer to Sailor Moon's weekly airings. The second two are very post-Madoka takes, and I wouldn't be surprised if Shattered Stars was directly inspired by Sleepless Domain, the major characters even have a similar color scheme

anyway if you know more lemme know

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(Gently pushes a fanfic through the door)

Fri, 11 Oct 2024 00:39:39 GMT

Posted by: malymin

Wechselbalg (732 words) by Malymin
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Princess Tutu
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Ahiru | Duck (Princess Tutu)
Additional Tags: warning for discussion of infanticide, Pre-Canon
Summary:

There's obvious Doylist reasons why Duck looks and acts less like a "real" duck than the other animals in the show. She's the relatable audience-viewpoint protagonist; she needs to be cute, appealing, not too inhuman. The other animals, with more naturalistic features, are either ordinary beasts without human intelligence, or they're framed as offputting and unsettling in their bestial forms and habits, as befitting animal bridesgrooms in fairy-tales. Duck can't be a real duck because a real duck is unpalatable, unrelatable; she's the idea of a duck, cute and sanitized.

What if there was a Watsonian reason for that, too?

What if she wasn't a real duck at all?

I feel embarrassed making two posts in a row in here, but... I've been wanting somewhere to share my Princess Tutu fanfics. I've actually got several Tutu fics on my Ao3, but my most recent series is a collection of postcanon one-shots focusing Rue and Mytho's perfect fairytale ending going awry, and that's probably too niche for most people? Honestly, this one is probably too niche, too. ^_^; I hope it's interesting despite that. I hope the footnotes are educational, as well.

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In Depth Analysis of 90's-00's Magical Girl Anime, Madoka, and Precure

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 02:53:53 GMT

Posted by: malymin

Ok, so full disclosure - these are not mine! The author of the blog linked these on Cohost back before it shut down, and I think they're extremely informative and interesting. A lot of context that passes by most of us in Anglosphere spaces gets explained!

Why You Don’t See New Magical Girl IPs the Way There Used to Be (It’s Not Because of Madoka)

In today's post, H.C., having heard the fallacy "Madoka killed the magical girl genre and made everything into ironic parodies or nostalgia milking" one too many times, goes into the actual reasons you don't really see as many new magical girl IPs nowadays and discusses how people who often claim to be "defending" the genre are actually just as guilty of underestimating it.

The Myth of Madoka’s Influence on Magical Girls, and Why It Barely Did Anything Compared to PreCure

H.C. goes into the myth of Puella Magi Madoka Magica's influence on the magical girl genre again, this time tackling how the series was actually received by its Japanese and Western audiences when it aired in 2011, and also goes into PreCure and how its cultural clout is probably way more than you even realize.

The first link also goes into a lot of detail about why the following slew of reboots, sequels, and spinoffs exists:

Sailor Moon Crystal (2014)
Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card (2016)
Saint Tail girls! (2018)
Tokyo Mew Mew Olé! (2020), Re~turn ♡ (2020), New (2022)
Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch: Aqua (2021)
Shugo Chara! Jewel Joker (2024)

I hope people here find them interesting!

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Magical Girl Timeline

Fri, 27 Sep 2024 18:26:53 GMT

Posted by: stepnix

Hello!

I've started putting a timeline of magical girl history on my personal website, give it a look here!

It's still a work in progress, but I've got some good notes to work from.

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Tokyo Mew Mew New: 2022 trailer!

Fri, 15 Apr 2022 14:10:30 GMT

Posted by: jajalala

Have you guys seen that Tokyo Mew Mew is being remade? Here's a trailer:

Super exciting! What do you guys think? Did you ever watch the original? How do you feel about Ichigo's hair staying red instead of turning pink when transformed?

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Rec: Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch

Sun, 16 Jun 2019 01:07:58 GMT

Posted by: zoingeroni

https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500_and_h282_face/qTKYecLExgruUoo9cXJUvDSqkDe.jpg

Does anyone remember this series??

"As the mermaid princess of the North Pacific (one of the seven mermaid kingdoms), Lucia entrusts a magical pearl to a boy who falls overboard a ship one night. Lucia must travel to the human world to reclaim her pearl and protect the mermaid kingdoms. Using the power of music Lucia is able to protect herself and the mermaid kingdoms from a growing evil force."

The description sounds more majestic than the silly school story it is!

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Persephone's Waltz - Commentary & Deleted Scenes

Sun, 23 Dec 2018 20:57:15 GMT

Posted by: erinptah

By request from belacqua in the December talking meme: director's commentary on Persephone's Waltz!

AKA my 70K-word Madoka Magica longfic, in which Homura is...much closer to the edge than in canon. Close enough that "kidnap Madoka and lock her in a basement for the next month" starts to sound like a good idea.

Spoilers through the end of the fic (and through the PMMM series) follow!

( Also, her thoughts about getting married one day: 'Would be nice if I can find a cool husband that resembles my Mama.' Hmmmm. )

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Magical Girls Top 5: Madoka, Sailor Moon, Kaitou Jeanne, Saint Tail, Tokyo Mew Mew

Thu, 20 Dec 2018 08:20:16 GMT

Posted by: erinptah

For the December talking meme, lielac prompted: "Talk about your top 3-5 magical girl shows/anime/manga/things!"

(not that I'm going to be terribly precise about the rankings, here.)

( Top Two: Sailor Moon and Madoka Magica )

( Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne )

Recommended for anyone who likes:

the identity-porn angle in Miraculous Ladybug
the Lupin/Zenigata dynamic in Lupin III, but with ladies
ridiculous off-the-wall Japanese adaptations of Christian mythology
pre-Madoka takes on "this magical-girl universe turns out to be way darker than it first appears"

( Saint Tail )

Recommended for anyone who likes:

"let's go steal an X" as a heroic catchphrase
Steven-Universe-type "whoops, it turns out my mom got up to some shady things in the past, and now I've gotta use what I've inherited from both my parents to make it right"
Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne, but maybe a little less weird, and the romance is cuter
everything is relentlessly adorable

( Tokyo Mew Mew )

Recommended for anyone who likes:

Captain Planet, but with Japanese furries
the Sailor Moon villains in the Black Moon and Makaiju arcs
Catradora, but the angsty part is temporary and resolved
unusually good shoujo gender politics
bird lesbians

Honorable Mention

I didn't put Revolutionary Girl Utena or Read or Die on the list. Decided they were too genre-adjacent to really rank. And this is already longer than I meant it to be, so I'm not going to do a whole sidebar about them anyway.

Short version: they're also very good, and you should give them a look!

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Mahou Profile: video essay series on the history of magical girls

Sat, 15 Dec 2018 04:41:16 GMT

Posted by: insertbearpun

Hey there guys! I thought I'd pop in with a recommendation that I figured at least some of y'all would be interested in: the Youtube series Mahou Profile, by Youtube user ErynCerise! It's a series designed to track the creation and development of the magical girl genre from the very beginning: part history, part analysis, and part Eryn's personal opinion of various milestone series in the magical girl genre. It's super informative and sparks some interesting thoughts on what makes magical girls "magical girls," and the elements that have been trendy and dropped from the genre over time! The vids are pretty in-depth, so it doesn't update incredibly frequently, but the vids currently out are definitely worth a watch and I would recommend keeping an eye on it over time!

( embed of Mahou Profile's first video, Intro to Magical Girls!, under the cut! )

Mahou Profile also has a planned companion series, Mahou Mini, in order for Eryn to do more brief reviews of current/ongoing magical girl series, considering that she likely won't be making it to modern-day series for QUITE a while in the main Mahou Profile series. Thus far she's only reviewed Magical Girl Site (spoilers: she did NOT like it), but I'm sure there's more to come!

Anyway, it's nice to meet you all, and I hope this comm (and DW fandom in general!) takes off the ground! :)

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Top 40 Sailor Moon Comedy Fic Recs

Wed, 12 Dec 2018 01:38:36 GMT

Posted by: erinptah

In the spirit of stirring up more activity in this comm: a roundup of my favorite funny Sailor Moon fics!

They're in order from "the site was easy to share from" to "the site was hard to share from," meaning it starts with AO3 fics and works all the way down to ancient .txt files. (Which still make me laugh, so they're in.)

Includes a few crossovers, including The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Ranma 1/2, and Pinky And The Brain.

( The King and Queen are away on holiday, leaving nine senshi and eventually three starlights with a three year old. No problem, right? )

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[Art] Tokyo Mew Mew - Zakuro/Mint

Tue, 11 Dec 2018 21:58:49 GMT

Posted by: sankseas

Fandom: Tokyo Mew Mew
Subject: Zakuro/Mint
Rating: PG
Warnings: two 600x images in the fake cut

When I remembered my first otp, I had to draw something :'D

Preview:

( fake cut to the fanart )

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Precure - Discuss!

Sat, 08 Dec 2018 20:52:42 GMT

Posted by: magnuschase

So the Precure series has to be one of my favorite long-running series yet. I'm not completely caught up with all of them, because there are a lot of episodes and seasons, but I find that each one I watch I just fall even deeper in love with Precure. I tend to fave whichever series I'm watching at the moment, but I especially love Miyuki from Smile Precure and Hana from Hugtto Precure. They're cheerful, energetic, and just overall great.

What's your favorite Precure series? Do you have any ships? Have you read any fanfics that you'd like to recommend? Who's your favorite character? Lets discuss anything that comes to mind when you think of Precure!

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Needed more tiny enemies-to-lovers lesbians in my life

Sat, 10 Oct 2015 18:43:30 GMT

Posted by: erinptah

so I did a Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha rewatch.

Thoughts, with helpful images (and lots of spoilers)!

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[Mix] Puella Magi Madoka Magica - Madokami/Homura - And I Still Have My Hands On The Wheel

Mon, 13 Jul 2015 21:25:46 GMT

Posted by: erinptah

Title: And I Still Have My Hands On The Wheel
Fandom: Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Subject: Madokami/Homura
Rating: PG
Warnings: Spoilers.

A mix for Madoka's sacrifice, ascension, and incredible strength in rewriting magical-girl history with her own hands. (And a Homura who, for all her loneliness, still hears Madoka's voice and remembers that someone is fighting for her.)

( They say these waters aren't what they used to be / But I've got people back on land who count on me )

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Frills of Justice Intro/FAQ

Sat, 28 Feb 2015 20:30:31 GMT

Posted by: erinptah

Welcome to frillsofjustice, a community for all things magical-girl related!

( Rules and FAQ )

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